The Cost of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: An Initiative From the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Crohn's & Colitis Foundation's Cost of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Care Initiative seeks to quantify the wide-ranging health care costs affecting patients living with IBD. We aimed to (1) describe the annualized direct and indirect costs of care for patients with Crohn's disease (CD) or ulcerative colitis (UC), (2) determine the longitudinal drivers of these costs, and (3) characterize the cost of care for newly diagnosed patients.

Methods

We analyzed the Optum Research Database from the years 2007 to 2016, representing commercially insured and Medicare Advantage-insured patients in the United States. Inclusion for the study was limited to those who had continuous enrollment with medical and pharmacy benefit coverage for at least 24 months (12 months befo

SUBMITTER: Park KT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7534391 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature